J, K, and L Lists Vocabulary

Question 1

jest, joke, mock (v.); prank (n.)

Answer 1

jape

Question 2

tired of something (thing is this and you are blasé)

Answer 2

jejune

Question 3

“joy of life;” someone who is very happy

Answer 3

joie de vivre

Question 4

government by the worst possible citizens

Answer 4

kakistocracy

Question 5

to know something; see, realize something

Answer 5

ken [d’ye ken him?]

Question 6

a photograph of a child

Answer 6

kindergraph

Question 7

fear of exhaustion

Answer 7

kokophobia

Question 8

not up to standard

Answer 8

lackluster

Question 9

a policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering

Answer 9

laissez faire

Question 10

an item given free to a customer when something else is bought

Answer 10

lagniappe

Question 11

elegant, concise

Answer 11

lapidary

Question 12

guardians of household, importance of the home; first: original founder of house who stays there forever; second: watched over wealth of house

Answer 12

lares and penates

Question 13

a gift [bestowing a ___]

Answer 13

largess

Question 14

suspicious, distrustful

Answer 14

leery

Question 15

(n.:) the inability to recall the right word or the right name

Answer 15

lethological/lethonomia

Question 16

giant whale; huge, giant

Answer 16

leviathan

Question 17

full of lust

Answer 17

libidinous

Question 18

miniature, tiny

Answer 18

Lilliputian

Question 19

common language accepted by speakers of different languages in order to understand each other

Answer 19

lingua franca

Question 20

to make someone greater than they are

Answer 20

lionize

Question 21

educated people, group of scholars

Answer 21

literati

Question 22

to be in a stubborn argument w/ someone; ____not s but ed: stubborn

Answer 22

loggerheads; loggerheaded

Question 23

full of exaggerated sadness or a fake sadness

Answer 23

lugubrious